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Fieldwork and fisheries in the time of COVID-19 in Taiwan

paultran — Fri, 07 May 2021 13:43:51 +0000

by Mallory MacDonnell Work in fishing has received increasing attention as one of the most difficult but also poorly monitored and regulated jobs in the world. It is subject to ambiguous and overlapping jurisdiction. I travelled to Taiwan in October 2020 to start fieldwork for my dissertation. Taiwan has one of the world’s largest distant […]

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Explaining labour relations in the global fishing industry

paultran — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:18:34 +0000

Over the past five years a series of scandals concerning slave-like working conditions on fishing vessels have provoked global efforts to improve working conditions for fishery workers. Yet initiatives that seek to improve working conditions are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence and explanatory analysis of the dynamics that lead to such unacceptable working […]

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Work at Sea: Explaining Labour Relations in the Global Fishing Industry

inist — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:12:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Peter Vandergeest/Co-Investigator: Philip Kelly. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2019-2024. The research sets out to examine marine fisheries work, focusing on fisheries based out of Thailand and Taiwan that have been identified as having large numbers of migrant workers and instances of labour abuse. In particular, it aims to understand labour issues as […]

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